Audio Diction Guides

Your Choir Can Sing in Russian Like Native Singers!

Russian is an eminently "singable" language. It has pure vowels, like Latin
and Italian, and intense consonants (like German) that help the sound flow.
The two biggest factors that stand in the way of programming Russian choral
works are the Cyrillic alphabet, and the scarcity of authoritative and reliable
diction coaching.

Musica Russica's editions eliminate these obstacles! Musica Russica makes singing in Russian, Ukranian, and Church Slavonic a user-friendly experience. Our Russica TM Transliteration System, expertly designed specifically for singing, phoneticizes the Cyrillic texts into Latin (Roman) letters. It references the International Phonetic Alphabet (I.P.A.) but keeps unusual-looking characters to a minimum. With the help of our text-specific Audio Diction Coaching Guides, your choirs can sound like native Russian singers!

The Spoken Texts

In the Guides, you will hear the texts spoken by a native speaker, phrase-by-phrase,
with pauses in between to allow for repetition, and then chanted, to allow
singers to focus in on the vowels and consonants sustained in singing.
Special techniques are given for dealing with some of the more unusual
vowels and consonants.

License to Copy

The purchase of a single CD includes a "License to Copy", which entitles you to make as many duplicate copies as needed for your singers.

CUSTOM DICTION CDs:

Custom Diction CDs are recorded upon demand, based on your specifications. The audio files are in .aiff format; once you receive the CD, you may convert the individual tracks into mp3 files for internal distribution to your singers.

The Russica™ Transliteration System

DVD - The ABC's of Russian Diction

Vladimir Morosan teaches essential diction techniques that will enable you to pronounce Russian, Ukrainian, and Church Slavonic with confidence, accuracy, and authenticity. Order your copy here.

Testimonials

"My high school students have done the Rachmaninoff “Bogoroditse Devo” in three different years with no language difficulty at all. The beauty of the music combined with the resonance and elegance of the Russian has made it the piece they want to sing again and again."

— Susan Mueller
Director

"I have found Musica Russica's transliteration system unbelievably easy to work with and to teach--even to amateur choirs that had trouble with Latin. And a native Russian speaker said that the choir sounded correct when we used that system. And, she also said that they couldn't get Russian music as good as MR's editions in Russia, another point in its favor. Run, don't walk, to Musica Russica for help."

— Robert W. Parker

"You are the only publishing company of Russian music that does it right. Your published music is much better than what is published in Russia. The world is spinning because of people like you. Thank you!"